Happy New Year!!

   

               A prayer pole that we burnt last night.

Our prayers were of thankfulness for God’s blessings in 2008 and our hopes for 2009. There was singing and drumming as the fire was lit and burnt.

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I shot this photo on Saturday night. I was at Afrika Burn in the middle of the Karoo, South Africa. 

 

The ground was hard like marble. It resembled the skin of a albino python. Fine, delicate desert flowers had grown out of the thin cracks in Earth’s shell. The life had almost dried out of these plants. The thermometer had reach 42 degrees celsius earlier that day. As summer now begins, soon these flowers will be gone and the ground will be left bare.

 

Any suggestions for a title are most welcome.

Sufi Dervish Zikr

 

 

 

I took these photos last Friday evening in Khartoum, Sudan. The Sufi Dervishes meet outside at sunset in a cemetery with a small weathered and ancient mosque. It was an exhilarating experience. The fast rhythmic drumming, chanting and dancing is hypnotic and trance inducing with a powerful sense of joy.

Photo – Parallel lines

      

    

I took this photo last week in the Namib Desert, Namibia, West Africa.

Photo – Parallel Poles

         

An art installation – A Prayer for Bev

                                                       

              

This mini installation was  the result of a group prayer for one of our group experiencing pain during her pregnancy.

                          

A Mandala – The bottom of my singing bowl